Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made this week by Vichy's wily little Vice Premier, Admiral Jean François Darlan. He said that "full agreement" was near. He implied that Vichy would guarantee the neutrality of the French Fleet and all of France's African colonies, including Madagascar, Axis-coveted strategic stronghold in the Indian Ocean. Admiral Darlan also said that the U.S. would resume food shipments to French North Africa, cut off last November when Vichy recalled her North African commander, Maxime Weygand...
This last year the chief interest of the House, if a generalization can be made of 300 students, has been not marks but extra curricular activities. Still the stronghold of scholarship, it now is using its Common Room and unique Tower Room, its Musical Society and its year-book. The Chronicle, to greater advantage...
...which had carried President Roosevelt some 25,000 miles through the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, and the old (World War I) destroyer Pope. The British lost the heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about 800 on the Houston, 125 on the Pope...
...Japanese conquered Java in eight days. They surged inward from the northern coasts, took the capital at Batavia, chopped up the long island into isolated bits, reduced the naval base at Surabaya and the Army's mountain stronghold at Bandung. On Java there was no Bataan. The Japanese victory was complete and swift...
...ideologies, the Department of Philosophy has a large responsibility in interpreting the issues. The actual defects in our practices under the heads of 'individualism,' 'liberalism,' 'democracy,' which have provoked in some quarters their radical rejection, have to be examined with an objectivity of which the university should be the stronghold during wartime...